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1. A Song - The Hallucinations of a Watch (continued)

   

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   The watchmaker wrote the following.
   Dear Sir, I have received to-day.
   Your silver watch in dire decay.
   The hands and wheels they have got tied.
   From bits of dirt and dust inside.
   I've brushed and scrubbed each part.
   In order that it may re-start.
   And tick and always correspond.
   With brilliant Phoebus far beyond.
   The wheels and works again are free.
   And travelling on quite merrily.
   The chain will to the watch now cling.
   Because its got another ring.
   So half-a-crown you'll have to pay.
   I hope 'twill go until doomsday.
   Then keep it clean and use it well.
   And it to you the time will tell.

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   The owner of receipt of watch wrote.
   Dear Sir, find two-and-six enclosed.
   For cleaning watch while indisposed.
   And as the ring thou didst restore.
   My thanks are greater more and more.
   The hands beat time without charg(?)
   Of Dublin, Greenwich and Berlin.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Collector

   Violet Hudson

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ráth Caola, Co. Luimnigh